Crime / Thrillers

SUSPENSE LIES IN THE SHADOWS OF RURAL IRELAND… Hazel McDermott is on the phone with her husband Darragh when she hears the screech of tyres. The jeep he was driving is soon found, overturned in a field off the motorway, but Darragh has vanished.

As the days pass and the Gardaí investigate, Hazel’s carefully built life starts to crumble. She soon discovers that her charismatic property developer husband has been keeping secrets – personal and financial – that could put her family’s safety and future at risk. But where is he? Is something sinister afoot, after he got into bed with the wrong people? And what is the connection to an abandoned mental asylum in a small town in County Galway? The answer, when she eventually gets it, will shock Hazel beyond belief.

Taut, unsettling, rich with suspense, If These Walls Could Talk is a gripping West of Ireland thriller about deception, obsession and the haunting truths we hide – even from those closest to us. ‘Dark, endlessly twisty’ Amy Jordan’Taut and terrific’ Gill Perdue’Gripping’ Catherine Kirwan

No Killing outside the game, But what happens when those rules get broken? When the drowned body of a troubled teenager is recovered from a river in Maine’s Kennebec Valley, and a young woman disappears from a small rural town, they draw the attention of the private investigator named Charlie Parker. Now Parker will be forced to confront a band of men without morality and without loyalty, not even to one another, in a place where the very darkness is alive. Because something has emerged from the shadows, something very bad.

And it wants revenge.

‘In the running for the best mystery of 2026’ Stephen King * Special Collector’s Edition available to the first hardback print run only! Featuring a stunning foil on board design beneath the dust jacket and exclusive illustrated endpapers – pre-order your copy now! Available while stocks last * Evelyn Clarke is the pseudonym for Number One Sunday Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab, and screenwriter and YA author Cat Clarke. SELECTED FOR 2026 ONES TO WATCH: Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Radio Times, BBC News Online, Stylist, Scotland on Sunday, The Herald Scotland, My Weekly, The Scotsman, Muddy Stilettos Berkshire ‘A cracking read’ Val McDermid ‘Smart, original and completely addictive’ Karin Slaughter ‘And Then There Were None meets Yellowface’ Kate Mosse ‘The most fun I’ve had with a book in a very, very long time’ A.

J. Finn, Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window * * * * It’s the perfect plot. All it needs is a killer ending.

Six authors. One private island. Seventy-two hours to write the ending.

* * * * World-famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won’t write itself.

When six struggling authors are invited to Fletch’s private Scottish island and presented with the opportunity of a lifetime, the plot thickens: whoever writes a worthy ending will receive a game-changing book deal and two million dollars. Why have they been chosen to attend? Who is behind the invitation? And just how far would they go to secure a place on the bestseller list? They have just seventy-two hours, a typewriter and a blank page. All they have to do is write… Starting is often the hardest part.

But getting to the end could be murder. * * * * ‘Hugely entertaining and thrilling’ B A Paris ‘Full of twists and turns … A must-read for any mystery fan!’ G.T. Karber ‘Fiendishly clever and compulsively readable… An absolute must read’ Ellery Lloyd ‘Funny, razor sharp and scarily relatable’ Sarah Crossan ‘A wonderfully twisty mystery that plays with all the tropes we know so well.

An absolute delight to read!’ Phoenicia Rogerson

A gripping new mystery from the million-copy-bestselling author Tana FrenchOn a cold night in a remote Irish village, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river.

In a place like this, her death isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty’s tangles.

As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel’s death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line. PRAISE FOR TANA FRENCH‘Incandescent’ Stephen King‘Mesmerising’ Gillian Flynn‘Masterful’ Chris Whitaker‘If you haven’t read Tana French yet, I really highly recommend that you do’ Harlan Coben‘Among the first rank of great literary novelists’ Observer’Crime fiction’s biggest contemporary star’ Guardian